Monitoring environnemental, Santé, Société et Pétrole en Equateur

Managers : Sylvia Becerra (GET Laboratory) and Laurence Maurice (GET Laboratory)

Coordination of the project is conducted by Sylvia Becerra (PhD, CNRS), and Laurence Maurice (PhD, IRD) aided by a scientific committee composed of one P.I. from each French and Ecuadorian partner: LEREPS, GEODE, HSM, EPOC, IMRCP, EPN, EP Petroecuador, PRAS, USFQ and UASB. Coordination will also ensure collaboration with social actors and links with local institutions. Two scientific coordination meetings will be held each year, one in France, and the other one in Ecuador.

The project will also be carried out in a collaborative approach with Ecuadorian partners, associations and local communities. The transfer of scientific results to operational use will be provided in real time. Our previous field experience shows that our straight collaboration with national and local stakeholders also contributes to the transfer of both reflective and organizational capacities and technical knowledge and know-how.

Three deliverables are proposed for this task: (1) the in situ restitution of scientific results to local populations and stakeholders in the study areas; (2) a closing symposium of the project will enable all partners to review the scientific results, to exchange views and knowledge with researchers from other countries and to develop perspectives for future action; (3) the communication of scientific results for the general public will use various media: photography exhibitions, video and book edition (see details in the chapter 4 of this document).